Kubernetes API Gateway with Gloo: Build Production-Grade Gateway API Architectures with Envoy, Secure Ingress, Rate Limiting, GitOps, and Multi-Cluste

By Alira Vexel

Kubernetes Gateway API is rapidly becoming the new standard for modern ingress and north-south traffic management. But deploying a Gateway is not the same as operating a production-grade API platform.

Kubernetes API Gateway with Gloo is a hands-on, operator-focused guide to building secure, resilient, and multi-cluster gateway architectures using Gateway API and Gloo. This book goes beyond basic routing examples and walks you through designing, deploying, securing, and operating a real-world API gateway platform under production constraints.

You will not find theoretical overviews or "Hello World" configurations here. Instead, you will build:

A TLS-first ingress architecture with consistent GatewayClass contractsMulti-team namespace boundaries with least-privilege ReferenceGrantsProduction routing patterns with weighted traffic shifting and canary releasesIdentity-aware authentication and policy enforcementTenant-fair rate limiting that holds under loadGitOps-driven delivery with Argo CD, drift control, and safe rollbacksActive/active multi-cluster traffic management with validated failover behaviorOperator-grade dashboards, alerts, incident runbooks, and disaster recovery drills

Every chapter includes structured Practice Labs designed to simulate real platform engineering scenarios. The final capstone project assembles a complete multi-cluster gateway platform-secure, observable, versioned, and failure-tested.

This book is written for:

Platform engineers modernizing ingress architecturesDevOps and SRE teams implementing Gateway API in productionCloud-native architects designing secure API boundariesOrganizations migrating from legacy Ingress controllersTeams building multi-cluster API platforms with GitOps

If you need a copy-paste YAML guide, this is not that book.
If you need a production-grade blueprint for operating Gateway API with Gloo at scale, this is the one.

By the end, you will not just understand Kubernetes Gateway API.
You will know how to operate it under real-world constraints-securely, predictably, and at scale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSG24NHY
• ISBN13: 9798251868371
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"